Appeared in: 2025 (3 sets)
(a) A parallel beam of light is incident on a face of a prism with refracting angle $60^{\circ}$. The angle of minimum deviation is found to be $30^{\circ}$. The refractive index of the material of the prism is close to :
(A) $1\cdot3$
(B) $1\cdot4$
(C) $1\cdot5$
(D) $1\cdot6$
OR
(b) The angle of minimum deviation for a ray of light incident on a thin prism, made of crown glass ($n = 1\cdot52$) is $D_{\text{m}}$. If the prism was made of dense flint glass ($n = 1\cdot62$) instead of crown glass, the angle of minimum deviation will :
(A) decrease by $4%$
(B) increase by $4%$
(C) decrease by $19%$
(D) increase by $19%$